On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a new series coming to the Boedecker Theater: The International Road Movie with Suranjan Ganguly. Continue reading
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The International Road Movie with Suranjan Ganguly
Nothing screams summer quite like a road trip. The pull of the open road, the freedom to choose this path or that, the small pockets of life one comes across on the way to the destination, the transformative experience of … Continue reading The International Road Movie with Suranjan Ganguly
Celebrating Stan 20 Years On
Few figures loom as large in CU’s history as Stan Brakhage. As a filmmaker, his influence on the visual medium is incalculable—even if he’s not commonly known. (Brakhage is to cinema what The Velvet Underground was to rock ’n’ roll.) … Continue reading Celebrating Stan 20 Years On
Uncertain Voyages, Unstable Terrains: Previewing the [canceled] 2020 Brakhage Center Symposium
From those displaced by politics to those displaced by climate, one of the familiar, and terrifying, themes of the 21st century is dislocation. For some, geographical fracture manifests itself physically, endangering health, and jeopardizing safety. For others, the fracture manifests … Continue reading Uncertain Voyages, Unstable Terrains: Previewing the [canceled] 2020 Brakhage Center Symposium
Celebrating Stan
Watching a Stan Brakhage film is like dreaming with your eyes open. The collision of colors and shadows, images overlapping images, distortions, and rapid-fire editing imprints on your eye and synthesizes in your mind. Close your eyes, and what do … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
An International State of Mind: Previewing the Fall 2019 International Film Series
We are living in a golden age of cinema. You might not agree if your focus is solely on multiplexes infected with sequilities and franchise-expansion syndrome. And it might not look that way if your only unit of measure is … Continue reading An International State of Mind: Previewing the Fall 2019 International Film Series
Truth at Every Level: Previewing the 2019 Brakhage Center Symposium
An object is not without context, and a perspective is not without a point of view. For British philosopher Alan Watts, this was a question of magnification. For example, take a photograph: look at it close up, and you see … Continue reading Truth at Every Level: Previewing the 2019 Brakhage Center Symposium
Nick Houy on MID90S
As the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock said, “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” And who does the cutting? Editors. Sifting through hours upon hours of footage, editors construct coherency from a multitude of takes and shape … Continue reading Nick Houy on MID90S
Celebrating Stan
Dear University of Colorado students: If I could offer you one word of advice—no, it’s not sunscreen—it would be this: Resources. Find them, use them, embrace them, stake your college career on them, and you will find yourself a better, … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
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